Well, in my case, I don't know many people who loves TFA. But then again I live in Japan, which rated the movie as only slightly better than AOTC, so what do I know.

But I did follow the Western social media and the hype leading to and during the movie and the many, many reviews and comments on how the movie "washed the bitter taste left from the prequels, hence it's awesome". I do remember when I just came out of the threater and me and my group of friends were still reeling on the experience of just watching a Star Wars movie that superficially felt like the first movie we fell in love, but at the same time left us a bit confused with the strangely anticlimatic way it ended, and we didn't know which of our feelings on the movie mattered the most. At first we were "it's just made me feel like a kid again, I'm sure" and later we were "I'm gonna admit, I don't like TFA and much as I thought I liked."

At the beginning, it felt like it was just wrong to say anything bad about the movie after all the wait and hype we endured, especially after this franchise went through three movies that were extremely criticized and the fandom earned a very, very bad reputation after the "GL raped my childhood" period.

Like if we don't like a movie that was deliberately shot and produced to make us feel like we were watching ANH again, then what kind of Star Wars movie will we ever like? Geez, Star Wars fans are never happy. Learn to be happy and enjoy TFA dammnit.

And that was the attitude that was prevalent in the English-speaking internet, every time someone said something negative about the movie. The first critic who wrote a negative opinion was bashed by the fandom and received death threats. That's how insanely protective and overhyped the fandom was upon the movie's release.

Then it slowly started to change as more and more people started noticing the flaws, the lack of an original plot, the shallow way the emotions are handled, the fact that movie hinges on nostalgia sentiment and not on coherent storytelling – and it's not that people didn't notice issues those before, it's more that after all the hype died down, the fact that the movie "was not like the prequels" became less important in our appreciation of the movie.
For many of us, TFA soon revealed to be a movie that looked worse and worse on repeated watches.

I do remember I rated 8/10 in IMDB in the day I watched TFA. Now, that movie would hardly get a 6 from me.

Do I think that the movie is still loved by a lot of people? Absolutely. Do I think it still managed to create characters that were enough compelling on their own regardless of the plot and made people excited for them? Yes. But do I also get the feeling that this movie was grossly overrated in huge part due to the hype, like Avatar? Yes. I mean, I still know people who list Avatar in their favorite movies lists, even though a lot of people seem to be believe now that Avatar being a crappy story with good CGI is an universal opinion. Shall I remember that Avatar's Metacritic score is higher than TESB's?

So yeah, the fact that TFA has that critical score doesn't mean much to me; it doesn't change the fact that I still think the movie is overrated, that JJ Abrams knows how to produce and edit a movie and manipulate the audience's emotions but he's still an uninspired writer with no creative vision that embodies too many things I dislike about Hollywood, or the perception that I have that the fandom would still largely prefer Rian Johnson to direct IX over JJ Abrams, even if JJ's movies were technically more successful than any of Johnson's movies.

I'e also gained a lot more respect for Japanese critics, as they called TFA for what it was right from the start.